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https://read.qxmd.com/read/36920205/congenital-syphilis-a-review-of-global-epidemiology
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Leeyan S Gilmour, Tony Walls
In 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a global health initiative for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of syphilis. This condition is highly preventable through antenatal identification of syphilis infection and treatment with penicillin during pregnancy. This review summarizes the global status of MTCT of syphilis and concludes that this condition remains a significant issue worldwide. There are large variations in case rates by region, with the highest numbers of cases in the African and Eastern Mediterranean regions, where there are also the least data available...
March 15, 2023: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36847515/agnostic-sequencing-for-detection-of-viral-pathogens
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Nick P G Gauthier, Samuel D Chorlton, Mel Krajden, Amee R Manges
The advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies has expanded our ability to detect and analyze microbial genomes and has yielded novel molecular approaches for infectious disease diagnostics. While several targeted multiplex PCR and NGS-based assays have been widely used in public health settings in recent years, these targeted approaches are limited in that they still rely on a priori knowledge of a pathogen's genome, and an untargeted or unknown pathogen will not be detected. Recent public health crises have emphasized the need to prepare for a wide and rapid deployment of an agnostic diagnostic assay at the start of an outbreak to ensure an effective response to emerging viral pathogens...
February 27, 2023: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36648228/an-overlooked-and-underrated-endemic-mycosis-talaromycosis-and-the-pathogenic-fungus-talaromyces-marneffei
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Fang Wang, RunHua Han, Shi Chen
Talaromycosis is an invasive mycosis endemic in tropical and subtropical Asia and is caused by the pathogenic fungus Talaromyces marneffei. Approximately 17,300 cases of T. marneffei infection are diagnosed annually, and the reported mortality rate is extremely high (~1/3). Despite the devastating impact of talaromycosis on immunocompromised individuals, particularly HIV-positive persons, and the increase in reported occurrences in HIV-uninfected persons, diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for talaromycosis have received far too little attention worldwide...
January 17, 2023: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36645300/antiviral-approaches-against-influenza-virus
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Rashmi Kumari, Suresh D Sharma, Amrita Kumar, Zachary Ende, Margarita Mishina, Yuanyuan Wang, Zackary Falls, Ram Samudrala, Jan Pohl, Paul R Knight, Suryaprakash Sambhara
Preventing and controlling influenza virus infection remains a global public health challenge, as it causes seasonal epidemics to unexpected pandemics. These infections are responsible for high morbidity, mortality, and substantial economic impact. Vaccines are the prophylaxis mainstay in the fight against influenza. However, vaccination fails to confer complete protection due to inadequate vaccination coverages, vaccine shortages, and mismatches with circulating strains. Antivirals represent an important prophylactic and therapeutic measure to reduce influenza-associated morbidity and mortality, particularly in high-risk populations...
January 16, 2023: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36625671/the-mrna-vaccine-technology-era-and-the-future-control-of-parasitic-infections
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Hong You, Malcolm K Jones, Catherine A Gordon, Alexa E Arganda, Pengfei Cai, Harry Al-Wassiti, Colin W Pouton, Donald P McManus
Despite intensive long-term efforts, with very few exceptions, the development of effective vaccines against parasitic infections has presented considerable challenges, given the complexity of parasite life cycles, the interplay between parasites and their hosts, and their capacity to escape the host immune system and to regulate host immune responses. For many parasitic diseases, conventional vaccine platforms have generally proven ill suited, considering the complex manufacturing processes involved and the costs they incur, the inability to posttranslationally modify cloned target antigens, and the absence of long-lasting protective immunity induced by these antigens...
January 10, 2023: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36468877/human-and-animal-fascioliasis-origins-and-worldwide-evolving-scenario
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Santiago Mas-Coma, M Adela Valero, M Dolores Bargues
Fascioliasis is a plant- and waterborne zoonotic parasitic disease caused by two trematode species: (i) Fasciola hepatica in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania and (ii) F. gigantica , which is restricted to Africa and Asia. Fasciolid liver flukes infect mainly herbivores as ruminants, equids, and camelids but also omnivore mammals as humans and swine and are transmitted by freshwater Lymnaeidae snail vectors. Two phases may be distinguished in fasciolid evolution. The long predomestication period includes the F...
December 21, 2022: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36448782/osteoarticular-mycoses
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Maria N Gamaletsou, Blandine Rammaert, Barry Brause, Marimelle A Bueno, Sanjeet S Dadwal, Michael W Henry, Aspasia Katragkou, Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis, Matthew W McCarthy, Andy O Miller, Brad Moriyama, Zoi Dorothea Pana, Ruta Petraitiene, Vidmantas Petraitis, Emmanuel Roilides, Jean-Pierre Sarkis, Maria Simitsopoulou, Nikolaos V Sipsas, Saad J Taj-Aldeen, Valérie Zeller, Olivier Lortholary, Thomas J Walsh
Osteoarticular mycoses are chronic debilitating infections that require extended courses of antifungal therapy and may warrant expert surgical intervention. As there has been no comprehensive review of these diseases, the International Consortium for Osteoarticular Mycoses prepared a definitive treatise for this important class of infections. Among the etiologies of osteoarticular mycoses are Candida spp., Aspergillus spp., Mucorales, dematiaceous fungi, non-Aspergillus hyaline molds, and endemic mycoses, including those caused by Histoplasma capsulatum, Blastomyces dermatitidis, and Coccidioides species...
December 21, 2022: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36374082/monkeypox-virus-infections-in-humans
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Sameer Elsayed, Lise Bondy, William P Hanage
Human monkeypox is a viral zoonosis endemic to West and Central Africa that has recently generated increased interest and concern on a global scale as an emerging infectious disease threat in the midst of the slowly relenting COVID-2019 disease pandemic. The hallmark of infection is the development of a flu-like prodrome followed by the appearance of a smallpox-like exanthem. Precipitous person-to-person transmission of the virus among residents of 100 countries where it is nonendemic has motivated the immediate and widespread implementation of public health countermeasures...
December 21, 2022: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36314911/updated-review-on-nocardia-species-2006-2021
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Rita M Traxler, Melissa E Bell, Brent Lasker, Brendan Headd, Wun-Ju Shieh, John R McQuiston
This review serves as an update to the previous Nocardia review by Brown-Elliott et al. published in 2006 (B. A. Brown-Elliott, J. M. Brown, P. S. Conville, and R. J. Wallace. Jr., Clin Microbiol Rev 19:259-282, 2006, https://doi.org/10.1128/CMR.19.2.259-282.2006). Included is a discussion on the taxonomic expansion of the genus, current identification methods, and the impact of new technology (including matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight [MALDI-TOF] and whole genome sequencing) on diagnosis and treatment...
December 21, 2022: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36222707/persistent-borrelia-burgdorferi-sensu-lato-infection-after-antibiotic-treatment-systematic-overview-and-appraisal-of-the-current-evidence-from-experimental-animal-models
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Y L Verschoor, A Vrijlandt, R Spijker, R M van Hest, H Ter Hofstede, K van Kempen, A J Henningsson, J W Hovius
Lyme borreliosis is caused by spirochetes belonging to the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato group, which are transmitted by Ixodes tick species living in the temperate climate zones of the Northern Hemisphere. The clinical manifestations of Lyme borreliosis are diverse and treated with oral or intravenous antibiotics. In some patients, long-lasting and debilitating symptoms can persist after the recommended antibiotic treatment. The etiology of such persisting symptoms is under debate, and one hypothesis entails persistent infection by a subset of spirochetes after antibiotic therapy...
December 21, 2022: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36200885/the-changing-paradigm-of-drug-resistant-tuberculosis-treatment-successes-pitfalls-and-future-perspectives
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Navisha Dookie, Senamile L Ngema, Rubeshan Perumal, Nikita Naicker, Nesri Padayatchi, Kogieleum Naidoo
Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) remains a global crisis due to the increasing incidence of drug-resistant forms of the disease, gaps in detection and prevention, models of care, and limited treatment options. The DR-TB treatment landscape has evolved over the last 10 years. Recent developments include the remarkable activity demonstrated by the newly approved anti-TB drugs bedaquiline and pretomanid against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Hence, treatment of DR-TB has drastically evolved with the introduction of the short-course regimen for multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), transitioning to injection-free regimens and the approval of the 6-month short regimens for rifampin-resistant TB and MDR-TB...
December 21, 2022: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36165783/the-microbial-etiology-of-community-acquired-pneumonia-in-adults-from-classical-bacteriology-to-host-transcriptional-signatures
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Naomi J Gadsby, Daniel M Musher
All modern advances notwithstanding, pneumonia remains a common infection with substantial morbidity and mortality. Understanding of the etiology of pneumonia continues to evolve as new techniques enable identification of already known organisms and as new organisms emerge. We now review the etiology of pneumonia (at present often called "community-acquired pneumonia") beginning with classic bacteriologic techniques, which identified Streptococcus pneumoniae as the overwhelmingly common cause, to more modern bacteriologic studies, which emphasize Haemophilus influenzae, Staphylococcus aureus, Moraxella catarrhalis, Enterobacteriaceae , Pseudomonas, and normal respiratory flora...
December 21, 2022: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36074014/paracoccidioidomycosis-current-status-and-future-trends
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Rosane Christine Hahn, Ferry Hagen, Rinaldo Poncio Mendes, Eva Burger, Andreia Ferreira Nery, Nathan Pereira Siqueira, Armando Guevara, Anderson Messias Rodrigues, Zoilo Pires de Camargo
Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM), initially reported in 1908 in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, by Adolpho Lutz, is primarily a systemic and neglected tropical mycosis that may affect individuals with certain risk factors around Latin America, especially Brazil. Paracoccidioides brasiliensis sensu stricto , a classical thermodimorphic fungus associated with PCM, was long considered to represent a monotypic taxon. However, advances in molecular taxonomy revealed several cryptic species, including Paracoccidioides americana, P...
December 21, 2022: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36069758/reassessment-of-historical-clinical-trials-supports-the-effectiveness-of-phage-therapy
#14
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Luigi Marongiu, Markus Burkard, Ulrich M Lauer, Ludwig E Hoelzle, Sascha Venturelli
Phage therapy has become a hot topic in medical research due to the increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria strains. In the treatment of bacterial infections, bacteriophages have several advantages over antibiotics, including strain specificity, lack of serious side effects, and low development costs. However, scientists dismissed the clinical success of early clinical trials in the 1940s, slowing the adoption of this promising antibacterial application in Western countries. The current study used statistical methods commonly used in modern meta-analysis to reevaluate early 20th-century studies and compare them with clinical trials conducted in the last 20 years...
December 21, 2022: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36475874/human-listeriosis
#15
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Merel M Koopmans, Matthijs C Brouwer, José A Vázquez-Boland, Diederik van de Beek
Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive facultative intracellular pathogen that can cause severe invasive infections upon ingestion with contaminated food. Clinically, listerial disease, or listeriosis, most often presents as bacteremia, meningitis or meningoencephalitis, and pregnancy-associated infections manifesting as miscarriage or neonatal sepsis. Invasive listeriosis is life-threatening and a main cause of foodborne illness leading to hospital admissions in Western countries. Sources of contamination can be identified through international surveillance systems for foodborne bacteria and strains' genetic data sharing...
December 8, 2022: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35862754/controlled-human-infection-models-to-accelerate-vaccine-development
#16
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Robert K M Choy, A Louis Bourgeois, Christian F Ockenhouse, Richard I Walker, Rebecca L Sheets, Jorge Flores
The timelines for developing vaccines against infectious diseases are lengthy, and often vaccines that reach the stage of large phase 3 field trials fail to provide the desired level of protective efficacy. The application of controlled human challenge models of infection and disease at the appropriate stages of development could accelerate development of candidate vaccines and, in fact, has done so successfully in some limited cases. Human challenge models could potentially be used to gather critical information on pathogenesis, inform strain selection for vaccines, explore cross-protective immunity, identify immune correlates of protection and mechanisms of protection induced by infection or evoked by candidate vaccines, guide decisions on appropriate trial endpoints, and evaluate vaccine efficacy...
September 21, 2022: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35862736/sensitivity-to-vaccines-therapeutic-antibodies-and-viral-entry-inhibitors-and-advances-to-counter-the-sars-cov-2-omicron-variant
#17
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Hao Zhou, Michelle Møhlenberg, Jigarji C Thakor, Hardeep Singh Tuli, Pengfei Wang, Yehuda G Assaraf, Kuldeep Dhama, Shibo Jiang
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) keeps evolving and mutating into newer variants over time, which gain higher transmissibility, disease severity, and spread in communities at a faster rate, resulting in multiple waves of surge in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases. A highly mutated and transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant has recently emerged, driving the extremely high peak of infections in almost all continents at an unprecedented speed and scale. The Omicron variant evades the protection rendered by vaccine-induced antibodies and natural infection, as well as overpowers the antibody-based immunotherapies, raising the concerns of current effectiveness of available vaccines and monoclonal antibody-based therapies...
September 21, 2022: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35726607/diagnosis-management-and-future-control-of-cholera
#18
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Fahima Chowdhury, Allen G Ross, Md Taufiqul Islam, Nigel A J McMillan, Firdausi Qadri
Cholera, caused by Vibrio cholerae, persists in developing countries due to inadequate access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene. There are approximately 4 million cases and 143,000 deaths each year due to cholera. The disease is transmitted fecally-orally via contaminated food or water. Severe dehydrating cholera can progress to hypovolemic shock due to the rapid loss of fluids and electrolytes, which requires a rapid infusion of intravenous (i.v.) fluids. The case fatality rate exceeds 50% without proper clinical management but can be less than 1% with prompt rehydration and antibiotics...
September 21, 2022: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35658516/candidate-phyla-radiation-an-underappreciated-division-of-the-human-microbiome-and-its-impact-on-health-and-disease
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Sabrina Naud, Ahmad Ibrahim, Camille Valles, Mohamad Maatouk, Fadi Bittar, Maryam Tidjani Alou, Didier Raoult
Candidate phyla radiation (CPR) is an emerging division of the bacterial domain within the human microbiota. Still poorly known, these microorganisms were first described in the environment in 1981 as "ultramicrobacteria" with a cell volume under 0.1 μm3 and were first associated with the human oral microbiota in 2007. The evolution of technology has been paramount for the study of CPR within the human microbiota. In fact, since these ultramicrobacteria have yet to be axenically cultured despite ongoing efforts, progress in imaging technology has allowed their observation and morphological description...
September 21, 2022: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35612324/machine-learning-for-antimicrobial-resistance-prediction-current-practice-limitations-and-clinical-perspective
#20
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Jee In Kim, Finlay Maguire, Kara K Tsang, Theodore Gouliouris, Sharon J Peacock, Tim A McAllister, Andrew G McArthur, Robert G Beiko
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health crisis that poses a great threat to modern medicine. Effective prevention strategies are urgently required to slow the emergence and further dissemination of AMR. Given the availability of data sets encompassing hundreds or thousands of pathogen genomes, machine learning (ML) is increasingly being used to predict resistance to different antibiotics in pathogens based on gene content and genome composition. A key objective of this work is to advocate for the incorporation of ML into front-line settings but also highlight the further refinements that are necessary to safely and confidently incorporate these methods...
September 21, 2022: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
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